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Virginia Governor Apologizing Already

Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell

Not even 6 months into his newly appointed office, Virginia governor Bob McDonnell is apologizing.

No, he isn't embroiled in a sex scandal (at least not yet).  No he didn't misappropriate campaign funds (at least none that we know of).  What he did (or rather didn't do) was not mention slavery as he issued a proclamation designating the month of April as Confederate History Month.

This is how Conferderate History Month is described, according to Wikipedia.

"Confederate History Month  is a month annually designated by several state governments in the Southern United States for the purpose of recognizing and honoring the history of the Confederate States of America.

The month is especially designed to celebrate what Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens famously described as a "new government . . . founded upon exactly the opposite idea [from that of the United States in 1776]; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

April has traditionally been chosen, as Confederate Memorial Day falls during that month in many of these states.

So, you're saying that we need to celebrate the racist, preposterous notion that the Negro African American is not equal to white people?

McDonnell, a Republican, apologized (as if that would help soothe the situation) for leaving out the horrid history of slavery in this country by saying, "Slavery was an evil, vicious and inhumane practice which degraded human beings to property, and it has left a stain on the soul of this state and nation."

What's more evil?

That we celebrate (still) a people being called less than human, or that we celebrate the horrible treatment of said people, or that we forget to mention the said treatment, and the people altogether?

Read the entire WHEREAS proclamation here. 

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